Pairing my Nokia folding keyboard with a mobile phone

Using Blogger's own software I'm trying to post to the blog using my newish mobile phone (a budget job, a Moto G4, seeing as you asked) paired with my old Nokia SU-8W folding keyboard.  

My phone has quite a large - 5.5 inch - screen with a fairly decent resolution. This means I can now read blogs without using the mobile phone version of the blog, which makes reading blogs on the phone a far better experience. Following from this I reasoned to myself that it should also be possible to post to the blog using the original version of Blogger rather than its mobile phone App.   

THE LOCAL PATCH IN THE WET 

Even with a large screen, I still find it tricky using the phone's small keyboard, continually mis-typing. That's why I'm pairing it with the fold-out keyboard. I believe that this will result in better blog posts - if you believe that more of my paragraphs results in better posts, and that's a stretch...

I think there are two advantages of doing this rather than using Blogger's own mobile app. The first should be the ability to position and size the pictures where and when I like, whilst being able to see the pictures. With the old app I used, Bloggeroid, I couldn't see the pictures, which meant that on a long post with quite a few pictures I would have to remember which I had posted, which proved tricky at times. The second is that when using Blogger I can left and right justify text, which I prefer to simply left-justified text. I know others prefer left justified, so this is a purely personal preference. 

BROTHER DAVE, SISTER PIP, AND ME 

So here goes.  Let's see if it works. And, it appears to have worked - including a picture edit. 

The Fat Lady Sings

With a couple of backpacking trips on the horizon - to Dartmoor with Robin and the Northern Pennines with a Clutch of Daunderers - my feeble mind has been gripped by an urge to wrench me from my backside and go for a walk.

I'm not too concerned about the pace set by the ageing Daunderers but young Mr Evans is quite a different kettle of fish; The chap fairly scurries along, weighed down only by a shelter spun from fresh air and fairy dust, and kit that never troubles the digits of his digital scales.



Should the fancy take you, it's possible to click on all these pictures to make them extravagantly large.



This ManMadeGlobalWarming is a complete bastard as the weather for the last few days has been frabjous, leaving me no excuse to not get out there and enjoy the Great Outdoors.



The pictures are from a walk taken yesterday, encompassing the northern clays and the eastern heathland of my local patch.



In a little under three hours it's possible for boots to accumulate huge clods of clay and then be coated with a dusting of fine sand. A bit more sunshine at Regulo 6 for another hour or so and your boots will resemble a couple of Flettons.



This particular stroll takes me past the sites of two gruesome murders; One took place a hundred or so years ago - the brutal drowning of a young boy - and the other only recently; The discovery of a man's body in a ditch - still unsolved as far as I'm aware.



I narrowed the choice of footwear for the Challenge down by one yesterday; My beloved Scarpa Nepals won't be coming as they're just too much hard work. This has come as a surprise to me as I have happily skipped along 3,000 miles in them. But at the end of yesterday's effort I finally realised that they are not for me any longer. The end of an era!



Late afternoon dog walkers around these parts mostly comprise middle aged women with absolutely no control over their charges. Ladies: If you're not the pack leader and you cannot recall your dogs, put them on a lead.

For the avoidance of doubt this also applies to men, but I have not yet met a bloke walking his dog around here who didn't have that control.



This post is being written using an 'app' (I do hate that word) called Bloggeroid. It seems to work jolly well apart from one major disadvantage; you can load the pictures where and in the order you want them, but once loaded it is not possible to see them as you write the text. I have no idea what image is displayed above or below! They are displayed to me as 'image 7' and 'image 8.'



And so, dear reader, you have the drop on me, as I've no idea what lies above and below this screed of woe.



I enjoyed snapping away because as any older hill walker knows, the more photographs you take the more rests are taken on the sly. Phil takes twice as many pictures on the Challenge as I, as he is older and wiser.



So, if young Mr Evans publishes more pictures on his write-up of our trip to sun-soaked Dartmoor you now know that I will have worn the young man out.



There is always an exception to the rule. On the upcoming PreWalkDaunder to the Northern Pennines our Senior Citizen will be the newly refurbished Peter Shepherd [Morpeth to his Challenge friends]. Peter recently underwent a triple heart bypass and although quite a few years older than Lord Elpus [my benchmark for decrepitude] he is never seen taking a sneaky photograph. He is always camped up before everyone else and eating his pudding as we arrive, or finishing a nap sprawled out in the sunshine.



And so, as the sun sinks below the pine trees and I hobble home in the gloaming, Peter gives me hope that the Fat Lady hasn't yet started to sing.

posted from Bloggeroid

Another mobile blog post

Readers can expect the occasional post using my blogging kit, as I need to get to grips with it. Hopefully with a little practice it will become easier, so that I'm not sat in Trinnie in the middle of sod all, scratching my head and wondering what I'm supposed to do.


Reflection of 3M Building

I made what I thought was a fairly safe resolution in the new year to walk a minimum of an hour an day up until the TGO Challenge in May. That all sounds simple enough, until you peek out of the window at the cold grey day outside and decide you'll make up the hour later in the week. (Repeat to fade...) Okay, I admit things slipped somewhat and in very short order I was five hours behind. Or fifteen miles.

Hmmm.


More 3M Building

Anyway... having got a little behind (steady, Tiger!) I've been making more of an effort recently and have begun clawing back the lost hours.



Right now I am just forty five minutes behind schedule and I find myself surprised that my local patch has quite a few interesting walks, especially in crappy weather.

Why have I set myself this daft schedule? I blame Miss Whiplash. I'm on the phone to Phil quite a bit recently, only to find that the bounder is being whipped around Suffolk at impressively regular intervals - they did EIGHT miles the other day... It was bad enough floundering behind the newly lean Mr Walker on the last TGO Challenge, but Phil always had the decency to be as equally unfit and out of breath as me. And now all this is at risk.



We'll see how this new regime goes, but now I'm almost back to target I'll be attackng it with new zeal. As Miss Whiplash used to say, "You'll thank me for this in May"

Testing another mobile blogging App: Bloggeroid

Right then. As you will have seen, I tried the Blogger App and was irritated that I could only post one image and it had to appear at the end of the post. That was no good at all! And on top of that Blogger's own App wouldn't allow me to justify text either.

Harrumph!

That awfully nice man Stormin' Norman recommended an App to me today on FaceBook and from squinting at that I found another App that seems to have even better reviews - Bloggeroid. I had to have a very close look at this as from first glance it sounds like a product to fix your bottom. It seems I am still unable to L&R justify the text. Bum! (So that's how it got its name.)

Now, let's see if it will let me stick a picture below this bit of writing:



Note: All this has been prepared on my Samsung S4 Mini, my Nokia fold out keyboard and using pictures from my phone from today's saunter around Bracknell.

Now to try publishing it.

Trial post for mobile blogging

This is a trial to see how things work out.

I'm uploading a post to my blog using a picture from my Lumix camera transferred wirelessly to the phone and the typing done on the old Nokia bluetooth keyboard. It's then sent to the blog using the Blogger App.

It appears as though I don't get a choice in where to position the picture, which is a bit of a sod. I am able to edit the post once published to sort out the spelling, which is just as well as there doesn't appear to be a spell-checker on this useless App. Neither can I right and left justify the text, which means it will look crap - well, more crap than usual.

TGOC 2014